Comments on: iPhone 3.0: Predictive Text Enhanced?

By: Jerrold Sowada

Jerrold Sowada — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:40:34 +0000

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By: Nicola

Nicola — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:33:40 +0000

is there any chance you can get anormal keyboard on the iphone ie like on other phones? (not a quirkey keyboard)

By: Nik

Nik — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:13:28 +0000

Hold the sleep button and press home to take a screenshot!

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 05:21:44 +0000

I want to know how to take a picture of what is on my phone. For example, to take a picture of a text message…

By: Marc

Marc — Tue, 05 May 2009 11:20:56 +0000

I wish I could remove some words. 3.0 keeps failing accentuating some words in French. Insteat of suggesting être for etre, it replaces it with Etre. Come on !!

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 05 May 2009 02:46:11 +0000

Wow. Your experiences are vastly different from mine. It seems to work like magic for me much of the time. In fact, my typing on a regular keyboard has actually gotten worse because I can’t rely on the predictive text to correct my mistakes.

By: DCDeacon

DCDeacon — Tue, 05 May 2009 01:57:36 +0000

They can start by fixing it so that amd gets changed to and and not AMD. Tired of seeing that 100x a day. Better yet, let me edit my own dictionary.

By: aj

aj — Mon, 04 May 2009 22:33:38 +0000

it doesnt correct lol to LOL anymore…just lol…really nice! lol

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 04 May 2009 22:30:50 +0000

It corrects “sec” to “sex” for me. Likin’ Beta 4 already…

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 04 May 2009 21:47:55 +0000

I want to be able to teach the dictionary words using capital letters. For example, my girlfriends name is Jessamine and I wish it would auto-cap the J without me having to do it manually (like how iphone becomes iPhone).

Failing that, I want autocorrection to work when using capital letters at all.

By: CaptnSpaulding

CaptnSpaulding — Mon, 04 May 2009 21:46:25 +0000

I find the dictionary handy for correcting my capital ‘i’, but it’s a bugger when I’m trying to type a text in Welsh!

By: Greho

Greho — Mon, 04 May 2009 20:53:54 +0000

The newest BlackBerry OS has the same pop-up suggestion list. So somebody is licensing it, or it’s one of those unpatentable “obvious” things.

By: frog

frog — Mon, 04 May 2009 20:10:47 +0000

I thought I was typing quicker and more accurately on beta4 – this explains why lol.

By: iPhone 3G

iPhone 3G — Mon, 04 May 2009 20:00:05 +0000

I turn it off

By: JPVann

JPVann — Mon, 04 May 2009 19:53:12 +0000

For those wanting to ‘train’ iPhone. Go to Safari and type in word that you want included in the dictionary. This is the only place on the phone from my experience that ‘learns’ new words or abbreviations.

By: AdMm

AdMm — Mon, 04 May 2009 19:52:11 +0000

You can add words to the dictionary, but not directly. Infact i’m pretty sure it was a posting I saw somewhere. But just make a false contact in your address book and for words you keep using add it to that contact information ie: if I use the word “snoogins” a lot and want iphone to remember it, it would bring that up as a word i’m trying to spell from the address book beause it’d be a name or an email address that it knows i have stored. Same thing for other words, names and so on.

By: Omari James

Omari James — Mon, 04 May 2009 19:08:17 +0000

Great, I’ll take two please.

By: antonioj

antonioj — Mon, 04 May 2009 18:08:20 +0000

yep, its better. i find myself failing much less and writing faster on 3.0 (beta 4)

By: marc

marc — Mon, 04 May 2009 18:04:12 +0000

I wish you could add words to the dictionary. Simple.

By: Muero

Muero — Mon, 04 May 2009 17:42:35 +0000

One improvement I think they could make is to make corrections even if you tap an extra letter or leave out a letter. As it is now, if you miss pressing a letter and type "improvemnt", it has no idea that you want "improvement", which seems obvious.

It also doesn't attempt to fix common misspellings. For example, the iPhone tries to replace "recieve" with "recurve." Recurve? Really? Is that even a word?

I have noticed some very slight improvements in the predictive text of 3.0 beta 4, but I think it could be vastly improved with some fairly simple new features.

By: Argelius

Argelius — Mon, 04 May 2009 17:05:21 +0000

I wish they’d come up with the predictive text app I used to have on my Treo (I can’t remember the name). If you typed something like “cont” a little box would pop up that would give you several choices like “contained, container, continue, continent”. Was a great way to really speed up text input. I’m guessing there must be some patent issues involved in bringing this to the iPhone, since it would be a huge improvement over what we have now…

By: sting7k

sting7k — Mon, 04 May 2009 17:04:09 +0000

They had better improve it. Seems the last 2 updates to the OS made it worse; doesn’t seem to “learn” new words for me anymore and also doesn’t always even predict a word lots of times. Just seem as good as it first was when I first got the iPhone in July 2007.

By: eelco

eelco — Mon, 04 May 2009 16:52:04 +0000

About time! It's my biggest problem with the current iphone: predictive text just doesn't work.

I want my t9 back.

By: Greyscale

Greyscale — Mon, 04 May 2009 16:00:47 +0000

That’s good, hopefully my iPhone will stop correcting my swear words now.